Molecular Gas and the Star-Formation Process on Cloud Scales in Nearby Galaxies

E Schinnerer, AK Leroy - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Observations that resolve nearby galaxies into individual regions across multiple phases of
the gas–star formation feedback “matter cycle” have provided a sharp new view of molecular …

Photodissociation and X-ray-dominated regions

MG Wolfire, L Vallini, M Chevance - Annual Review of …, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The radiation from stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) creates photodissociation regions
(PDRs) and X-ray-dominated regions (XDRs), where the chemistry or heating is dominated …

Efficient formation of massive galaxies at cosmic dawn by feedback-free starbursts

A Dekel, KC Sarkar, Y Birnboim… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT JWST observations indicate a surprising excess of luminous galaxies at z∼ 10
and above, consistent with efficient conversion of the accreted gas into stars, unlike the …

FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, C Wheeler… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Increasingly, uncertainties in predictions from galaxy formation simulations (at sub-Milky
Way masses) are dominated by uncertainties in stellar evolution inputs. In this paper, we …

The dynamics and outcome of star formation with jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae in concert

MY Grudić, D Guszejnov, SSR Offner… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022‏ - academic.oup.com
We analyse the first giant molecular cloud (GMC) simulation to follow the formation of
individual stars and their feedback from jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae, using the …

Pressure-regulated, feedback-modulated star formation in disk galaxies

EC Ostriker, CG Kim - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The star formation rate (SFR) in galactic disks depends on both the quantity of the available
interstellar medium (ISM) gas and its physical state. Conversely, the ISM's physical state …

Efficiently Cooled Stellar Wind Bubbles in Turbulent Clouds. I. Fractal Theory and Application to Star-forming Clouds

L Lancaster, EC Ostriker, JG Kim… - The Astrophysical …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Winds from massive stars have velocities of 1000 km s− 1 or more and produce hot, high-
pressure gas when they shock. We develop a theory for the evolution of bubbles driven by …

Introducing TIGRESS-NCR. I. Coregulation of the Multiphase Interstellar Medium and Star Formation Rates

CG Kim, JG Kim, M Gong… - The Astrophysical …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Massive, young stars are the main source of energy that maintains multiphase structure and
turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM), and without this" feedback" the star formation …

Pre-supernova feedback sets the star cluster mass function to a power law and reduces the cluster formation efficiency

EP Andersson, MM Mac Low, O Agertz… - Astronomy & …, 2024‏ - aanda.org
Context. The star cluster initial mass function is observed to have an inverse power law
exponent around 2, yet there is no consensus on what determines this distribution, and why …

Star clusters forming in a low-metallicity starburst–rapid self-enrichment by (very) massive stars

N Lahén, T Naab, D Szécsi - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Stellar winds of massive () and very massive () stars may play an important role in the metal-
enrichment during the formation of star clusters. With novel high-resolution hydrodynamical …